Peter Stuge wrote:
> As for a new standard I think we should start out by evaluating all
> current disklabel schemes to see what state of the art is, and how we
> can improve upon it.
>
I still like Amiga's Rigid Disk Label best. It stores the firmware's
filesystem driver for each file in the "partition table" to a partition
so the firmware can always read a disk, no matter how new and weird the
filesystem is. It also has no limitation on partitions.
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